Within the first Merseyside derby, performed on the Hill Dickinson Stadium, Liverpool defeated Everton 2-1, with Virgil van Dijk scoring the successful purpose 10 minutes into second-half stoppage time.
Sunday’s recreation seemed set to finish in a draw after it was halted with Giorgi Mamadashvili and Jarad Branthwaite each despatched off with accidents and each groups struggling critical accidents.
Nevertheless, Van Dijk surprised the house followers into silence with a last-gasp header from Dominik Szoboszlai’s nook. This leaves Liverpool seven factors away from groups outdoors the highest 5.
Everton’s gamers have been welcomed by a big crowd of supporters on the Hill Dickinson Stadium, and the ambiance shortly elevated as Beto’s header was parried away by Mamadashvili within the sixth minute.
Then Iliman Ndiaye’s purpose was canceled out for Jake O’Brien’s offside within the build-up, ensuing within the stadium’s first derby purpose on the different finish simply 66 seconds after the restart.
Kodi Gakpo intercepted a free move from Dwight McNeil and slipped Mohamed Salah previous Jordan Pickford for the primary time.
Nevertheless, Everton equalized 9 minutes into the second half, with Keenan Dewsbury-Corridor beating Ibrahima Konate to provide Beto the lead.
After this purpose Mamadashvili was despatched off and had to get replaced by third-choice goalkeeper Freddie Woodman, however Everton have been despatched off in tears with Beto struggling a head damage and Branthwaite with an obvious hamstring drawback.
These accidents disrupted the stream of the sport, with 11 minutes of added time operating out and Van Dijk slotting house a nook for Szoboszlei simply earlier than time was up, placing an eight-point buffer between the groups.
6 – Liverpool scored six successful targets in 90 minutes towards Everton within the Premier League. That is essentially the most targets scored by a workforce towards a single opponent within the historical past of the event. Proud. pic.twitter.com/3SWn6GKvBh
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Information report: Van Dijk scores late purpose, Salah faces Gerrard
Liverpool have been removed from their finest right here, racking up 14 photographs and an anticipated targets (xG) of 1.45, with a lot of the latter coming from Salah’s opening purpose. Everton had 10 photographs and an xG worth of 0.8.
However two of Everton’s outdated gamers confirmed heroics as soon as once more within the derby.
Within the final Merseyside derby, Salah scored 9 targets, equaling Steven Gerrard because the Premier League’s all-time main scorer in that recreation.
He additionally scored 83 away targets, equaling Andy Cole for the fifth most away targets in Premier League historical past. Solely Harry Kane (112), Wayne Rooney (94), Alan Shearer (87) and Frank Lampard (85) have scored extra targets.
Van Dijk’s purpose, scored after 99 minutes and 53 seconds, was the third slowest successful purpose within the Premier League (since 2006-07), after Chelsea vs Manchester United in April 2024 (100 minutes 41 seconds) and Newcastle United vs Leeds United in January 2026 (101 minutes 48 seconds).
